Jason Scheirer
Jason Scheirer
Jason Scheirer
Hi, I’m Jason Scheirer. I’m a professional programmer and in my free time I’m a hobbyist programmer. I write games, I make little web toys, I talk about the passage of time. If you’re quiet on a summer’s day you can hear me whispering about JavaScript on the cool breeze.
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Problem Space At my new job, my new team engages in a team activity: every other week we get together for 30 minutes to play a game together online. We’re mixed hybrid, meaning about half of us work in office and half of us are...
I’m an enthusiast of playing around with different window management schemes. I like the idea of a tiling window manager, but I’m not smart enough to ever get really productive in something like i3 or sway. for the past few years I’ve...
Post Contents Introduction Goals Anti-Goals First Things First Retrieval-Augmented Generation What The Hell is a RAG? What does this mean? Case Study: The Dumbest Possible Person in the Room Getting the Data A Eulogy for wget Enter...
I got my first job as a software engineer in 2000, so in 2024 I’m pushing a quarter century of being a developer. This is one of the topics I have begun to hold near and dear to my heart. Software engineering is a team sport. If you’re...
A common antipattern I’ve been both perpetrator of and victim to is what I describe as Framework Syndrome. This is the act of writing software that does not solve the inherent problem at hand, but provides a poorly designed scaffold in...
I’m exhausted. I’ve been guilted/peer pressured into participating in the AoC for at least 5 years. I’m tired, I’m defeated, I’m unable to meet its weird expectations consistently and still I remain a competent software engineer. I’m not...
In my previous post I wanted to run a keepalive green thread on the wide while doing work to let the coordination framework (in this case just a plain old Postgres database) which workers were around and still processing work. Now, I...
At work I’m currently working on a fairly large system in which we have a pool of greedy workers, of unknown size, which can opt it at any time to the flow of work. A job is considered abandoned if it is marked as IN_PROGRESS but the...
I have a Gaming PC I bought from Costco when my wife told me “I should maybe get back into my old hobbies” in the summer of 2020. It came with Win10, which is fine and it’s probably good to have at least one Windows machine in the house...
Wanting a small, pocketable handheld for bus rides, etc., I saw the Miyoo Mini and attempted to purchase one. They are incredibly hard to acquire. The Anbernic RG35XX presented itself as an alternative, and it was actually possible to...
I’m a weirdo: on my IDEs I prefer a light theme, having used light themed IDEs since time immemorial (still miss using Visual Studio regularly). But I prefer white on black for my terminal emulators, as I have used that since time...
I bought a Devterm a couple of years ago and it’s mostly been sitting in a drawer. The good The thermal printer is novel The form factor makes it super portable The bad OS support is not great, at one point I built my own Raspbian image...
I bought a Steam Deck. I was on a waiting list that said I wouldn’t get it until this year (2023), but it arrived in October 2022. This thing is so versatile thanks to its Desktop Mode. For games like the boomer shooters I so love, I can...
I kickstarted the AOKZOE A1 when I was utterly convinced that I would never get a Steam Deck. Joke’s on me; the Deck arrived before the A1. I primarily use this system as my sole Win11 machine, so it does a lot of light desktop work. It...
I’m not going into specs or specific details on this device. I was on an iPhone XS, which has slowly been degrading over time. Battery was slowly dying, replaced it at the Apple Store, the ribbon cable for the display was not adequately...